Give a meaningful gift this Christmas and change someone’s life

Giving gifts this Christmas can make a real and lasting difference to the lives of people who live locally or around the world and also bring joy. We’ve put together a list of reputable organisations that offer support to people in need in varied ways that can have a huge impact on their lives.

Imagine being able to provide a family overseas with a way of creating their own income and that’s by just buying a goat! Imagine being able to send money overseas to a community and enabling them to have access to clean drinking water and a toilet! Or, it could be a family in Australia, currently living in a car and providing money to assist them to obtain proper housing.

These are great gifts to give to friends, family, teachers, parents-in-law, colleagues. These gifts would even make a fantastic alternative to the traditional Kris-Kringle.

Tear’s Really Useful Gift Catalogue

Every item in TEAR’s Gift Catalogue represents a contribution to a long-term poverty-fighting project run by one of TEAR Australia’s Christian partners. Each project is tailored to that community’s needs, helping people gain the skills and resources they need to address local problems and come up with sustainable solutions.

Smith Family Toy & Book Appeal

The Smith Family Toy & Book Appeal aims to deliver over 75,000 new toys and 50,000 new books to children in need around Australia. Your donation and online purchase will help them share Christmas where the need is greatest.

The Charity Gift online gift catalogue features a range of gifts matching the age, gender and interests of these children. Your gifts help the Smith Family ensure that no child misses out this Christmas. You choose a gift and they get it to where it’s most needed, in time for Christmas Day.

Share the Dignity

Donate to a women’s charity that makes a real, on-the-ground difference to homeless women and victims of domestic violence. Share The Dignity collects thousands of pads, tampons and personal hygiene products every YEAR for women experiencing homelessness and poverty. Small dignities make a big difference. They fund funerals for victims of domestic violence and campaign for justice for women in Australia.

‘It’s In the Bag’

Share the Dignity’s Christmas charity campaign “It’s In The Bag” is all about handbags filled with sanitary items, personal hygiene products and little luxuries! These bags are given to homeless women, women in crisis and women experiencing poverty.

You can donate online or donate products at your local Bunnings Warehouse until Sunday 2 December 2018.

Buy something special for yourself, a special gift for friends or family, or donate a bag to a woman who just needs to feel a little special. Every handbag sold online funds their vital programs. Choose from a beautiful selection of handbags online because all profits go to helping Australian women in crisis.

Oxfam Shop

When you buy Oxfam’s beautiful, unique, handmade products, you help empower artisans and farmers from around the globe to lift themselves out of poverty. Shop with Oxfam in Adelaide, shop online or by purchasing Oxfam fair tea, coffee and chocolate products from a supermarket near you.

Each item they sell is unique, beautiful, and practical and — best of all — every item is filled with purpose, which is to tackle poverty by improving the lives of artisans and farmers from poor communities.

Unicef – Inspired Gifts

Choose life-changing Christmas gifts for your friends and family members. Choose a gift from Unicef’s Inspired Gifts range, personalise a card to be sent to your friend or loved one and your life-saving gift will be delivered to where children need it most.

Your thoughtful gift for a loved one is a life-changing gesture for a child in need

From school bags and pencils to vaccinations and first aid kits, we have a gift to suit every friend and family member

UNICEF Inspired Gifts respond to the real and changing needs of children around the world

Purchase by 9am Wednesday, 12 December 2018 to allow for printed card delivery. E-cards and print-at-home cards are received instantly.

Camp Quality

What is Kid-ness?

Kid-ness is the sheer delight of being in the moment, the strength to believe anything is possible, and giving with all your heart – it’s the essence of being a kid. Camp Quality helps Kid-ness thrive for children going through the daily ups and downs of cancer.

Purchase Kid-ness Advent Calendar Hangar and Cards or Advent Calendar Bags and Cards and you will be helping support Camp Quality.

Childhood Cancer Association

The Childhood Cancer Association is one of Australia’s key childhood cancer support organisations. They’re here to help families from South Australia and the Northern Territory — and they also support country Victoria and New South Wales families if their child receives treatment in Adelaide.

Purchase a gift from their online store and you can help provide ongoing support for children with cancer, and their families.

Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal

Christmas and beyond

This year, the Appeal encourages those contributing to give a practical gift that will help people in need all year round. The ‘Wish List’ in ‘Give a gift in Stores’ section shows what Kmart’s charity partner needs most. The Appeal runs from 12 November 2018 to 24 December 2018 and monetary donations will be accepted until 31 January 2019.

Salvation Army Christmas Appeal

Christmas can be a wonderful time, but when a tragedy or crisis hits it can be terribly hard. Children, people struggling alone and families battling to keep food on the table are the hardest hit.

This Christmas, the Salvation Army wants to give hope to Australians battling tough times. Your donation means that they can offer:

shelter to people with nowhere to sleep,

gifts for kids who would otherwise get none,

hampers for people struggling to afford basic meals, and

support for those struck by disaster

There’s a range of gifts from as little as $5 for a cup of hot soup for someone in need, $19 for Christmas lunch for someone at a Salvos Crisis Centre and more. Your donations are enormously appreciated – because they really do give hope where it’s needed most.

At Play & Go Adelaide we make every effort to provide accurate information to the best of our knowledge at the time of publication. We recommend confirming times, dates and details directly before making any plans as details may be subject to change.

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